Bigger is not always better!

[TheSheepGirl]

I am getting sick and tired of all of the people in my area trying to sell flemish giant crosses as meat rabbits. I have even had people tell me I should breed flemish into my lines to make them bigger.

I have explained time and again that by breeding flemish into your lines it increases the bone/meat ratio and you actually end up with less meat and a thinner loin on the finished carcass.

Why do people always think bigger is better when it comes to meat animals?

I wish they would feel their rabbits from time to time and realize how little meat they actually have.

When comparing a 6 week old californian and an 8 week old flemish cross I found that the cali had almost twice the loin width and was much smoother.

 

[justin]

That's what happens when people fail to do there research before getting into something like this.

 

[terri9630]

It's not just the rabbits. People always talk down about my horse because she is only 14.2 hands but I think she is perfect. My friend has to use a stool to get on her giant and once on stays on. If she drops something it just stays dropped unless I get it because out in the desert there are no tree stumps and barbed wire doesn't make a good step stool. There are also those that have trucks that won't even put trash in the bed so it won't get scratched, what is the point of having a truck if you don't use it as a truck??

 

[rabbitlady4433]

Im gonna have to chime in on this too! It's very frustrating. I'm only 4'9 and, yes full grown and an adult. And people always say- Don't you wish you were taller, isn't inconvenient to be that short, and so on and so on. NO! I don't want to be taller and I've been this way since the 5th grade, it's not inconvenient! And I can do anything a grown man can do!

Whew I feel better now.

 

[jodief100]

Im gonna have to chime in on this too! It's very frustrating. I'm only 4'9 and, yes full grown and an adult. And people always say- Don't you wish you were taller, isn't inconvenient to be that short, and so on and so on. NO! I don't want to be taller and I've been this way since the 5th grade, it's not inconvenient! And I can do anything a grown man can do!

Whew I feel better now.

A good friend of mine is a giant of a man who stands a smidge under 5'5". He once told me "I can always stand on a stool but there is nothing a tall man can do that will help him get under something" He is tough as nails and the first person I want at my back in a fight.

 

[Thundrr-Chicken]

im 6-4 and i can tell you the world was not designed to accommodate tall people... i'd love to be a little shorter

 

[FarmGuru]

im 6-4 and i can tell you the world was not designed to accommodate tall people... i'd love to be a little shorter

Yes world is supportive of mediocre people

 

[BackyardCritters]

im 6-4 and i can tell you the world was not designed to accommodate tall people... i'd love to be a little shorter

I understand - I am 6'3" and have been this way since 7th grade. I was 5'11 in 4th grade. Do you know how awkward it is to be 5'11" in 4th grade muchless be a girl and be tall!?

 

[manybirds]

I am getting sick and tired of all of the people in my area trying to sell flemish giant crosses as meat rabbits. I have even had people tell me I should breed flemish into my lines to make them bigger.

I have explained time and again that by breeding flemish into your lines it increases the bone/meat ratio and you actually end up with less meat and a thinner loin on the finished carcass.

Why do people always think bigger is better when it comes to meat animals?

I wish they would feel their rabbits from time to time and realize how little meat they actually have.

When comparing a 6 week old californian and an 8 week old flemish cross I found that the cali had almost twice the loin width and was much smoother.

I know what u mean! i breed FG and when uneducated people look at them they almost always say 'now thats a meat rabbit' then i explane why they arn't good meat rabbits and they don't even listen and walk away . it happens like that almost every time. they seriously just don't listen!